Today’s design challenge is brought to you by the letter S! Threadless is teaming up with the most famous street in the world for a design challenge with our googly-eyed friends. From tiny worms to giant pachyderms, each and every character has kept learning fun for more than 40 years. There are always songs to sing, people in the neighborhood to meet, and 123s and ABCs to learn on Sesame Street.

Now you have the opportunity to use your favorite Sesame Street characters in a design that will be sold on Threadless! Create a design inspired by the Sesame Street mission of creating innovative and engaging content, and use anything or anyone from 123 Sesame Street. So pick up your feet, follow your beak, and get designing!

The worst part is, I've always had more ideas for Sesame Street T-Shirts than Muppet Show ones. I have to sit this one out, not due to an inferiority complex, but that I do not have quality equipment to fully realize a quality rendering. I can do something that looks good, sure... but it's going to lose a lot in translation when it's pixilated, due to my inability to do anything vector based.

I'm lovin' alot of these designs. I'm surprised (and enthralled) that someone actually made one from "I Wonder" (though, I don't think it gets originality points for tracing Ernie's pose from it exactly).

I especially like the ones based on Ernie, Bert and the Count's outfits. Why haven't they done that before?

And even though I doubt I'd win in any place, the prizes they do have to offer are basically things I already have, just without the special autographs (I have each of the books they're offering, I'm not sure I would want a gift card to buy $250 dollars worth of t-shirts... but I sure would like $2,000.

It's neat that the artist who submitted this was influenced by the earliest SS books. And it really captures the look and feel of SS in its earliest seasons (e.g. blue-nosed Herry). I would have loved if he added in things like Beautiful Day Monster, Matt Robinson's Gordon, and "scary" Snuffy.

It says "coming soon," but Threadless contests can take months to reveal the winner and it can often come and go without much pageantry. The highest rated score doesn't necessarily win either. It's kind of weird. Only the selected designer knows and must keep it secret until announced. Let's hope they print several designs like last year's Muppets contest. There were some great entries!

It's neat that the artist who submitted this was influenced by the earliest SS books. And it really captures the look and feel of SS in its earliest seasons (e.g. blue-nosed Herry). I would have loved if he added in things like Beautiful Day Monster, Matt Robinson's Gordon, and "scary" Snuffy.

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That one is wonderful. It has a great Jack Davis feel to it. I especially like how they chose that specific Herry too.

It says "coming soon," but Threadless contests can take months to reveal the winner and it can often come and go without much pageantry. The highest rated score doesn't necessarily win either. It's kind of weird. Only the selected designer knows and must keep it secret until announced. Let's hope they print several designs like last year's Muppets contest. There were some great entries!

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I really hope it goes to strong concepts with great art and not just flashiest arrangement of basic components of the characters. The entries that were good were REALLY good this time, and the ones that were bad were pretty bad. Still, it's amazing to see a lot of non-Muppet based Sesame designs, the Phillip Glass parody ("Making Geometry Creepy since 1969"), a Mad Painter (which is just a photo manipulation, but it was pretty strong a T-shirt design), and even a recreation of the Pinball Number Count "vortex" (out of all the non-Muppet entries, the best looking).